Most listeners DO roll with that. Maybe they have a quick laugh or puzzled facial expression over it, but they don't obsess over it, swear they'll never listen to the station again, or have the urge to tell a bunch of total strangers on the internet that those cretins at WRKO don't care about their station.
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At the risk of Kelly getting upset,
the frequent 1200 glitching continues today.
Just a hunch, but, since these audio hiccups between WBZ and the traffic reporter also occur with Lori Grande and Kevin Brennan, I'm going to guess that it's due to an inferior AoIP link between the 'BZ studio and the TTN center , which, IIRC, is just across the road.
If they are that close they could consider a string and two tin cans as a backup. =)
Towers get painted. A tower may be an antenna, particularly for AM. But for FM, the tower is not the antenna.
And in the first 10 or so years of AM radio, the towers held up the antenna, but were not the antenna itself. And in much of the world, well into the 70's, many AM stations used wire antennas hung from towers, but insulated from them.
I'm not upset. Just don't understand the drama.
What do you mean by "1200 glitching"? Does that mean something unusual happens at Noon?
WKOX's frequency is 1200 khz. A previous post referred to the station as "Talk 1200."
Ah, got it thanks. Now we just need to decipher what is meant by 'glitching'.
Around 20 years ago I was involved with a small AM station in suburban Hartford. We had our live local talk show 1PM-3PM and then Dr. Laura would come on from Premiere Radio Network after the network news from FOX. {Also from PRN).
One day our automation system switched to the wrong PRN satellite channel and we were running dead air instead of Dr. Laura. Funny thing was there were 3 of us in the building and none of us knew this until about 3:15PM when we got a "Do you guys know you're off the air?" phone call. The station manager's wife who answered the phones and was in charge of the station's Traffic Department went into the studio and changed the receiver to the correct PRN satellite channel.
How did 3 people not notice the glitch? When the station manager concluded his show and the TOH news began he turned the volume down on the in-studio speaker that monitors the station. Plus the radio in the lobby that also monitors the station was turned off. I was tuned to the station on my Walkman, but I had the volume turned off.
The old days when CBS and Westwood One were one in the same and if there was no board op at the station at the conclusion of a live sporting event you'd hear on the station for hours on end "CBS Radio Network Channel 42." *beep*
A problem that could be intermittent?
What sort of problem? Audio disappearing momentarily? Some sort of noise that interrupts the audio? Carrier dropping?
I'd imagine the same problems the poster described at WRKO -- stale days-old newscasts, etc.
And that's considered glitching?
It's a coined word, so it can mean any sort of occasional problem, I suppose. You wouldn't describe the airing of a Friday afternoon newscast on Saturday morning as a glitch?
I'd likely describe it as an improperly scheduled or aired program. That said; it's not unusual for many news/stories to carry over from the day prior, especially between Friday to Saturday morning.
I assume these are obviously outdated newscasts, complete with references to events that "will happen" that actually happened 24 hours earlier, maybe even including stale weather forecasts. I've heard stations up here and back in Connecticut that still run forecasts that begin "Tonight, thunderstorms likely, lows in the 60s. Clearing Friday morning, then hot and humid, highs near 90." well into Friday afternoon. Glitch, negligence, error, call it what you will. It still happens. But as I've said before, I shrug it off and don't pester station engineers about such things.
You're exactly right. I get it, there are still a lot of legacy assumptions that some version of Les Nessman is working at their favorite station 24/7 putting together a fresh newscast waiting to cover breaking news. Not only did those days never really exist, but most newscasts are just files dropped into an automated playlist. The newscast may be produced from someone out of town via their home. If they forget or are unable to FTP their newscast over, what remains is what you'll hear. Chances are, most average listeners don't notice, let alone care.
One would think a system would be set up for WX and News where the files would have a date and possibly the hours playable as part of it number. The system would have an instruction to only use WX and News files that match the commercial log's date. Example using year and Julian date. "WX2400101. The first weather forecast Jan 1st 2024 and so on.
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